Programming stories
Software engineering is the backbone of Hacker News. This topic covers programming languages, frameworks, databases, developer tooling, and the craft of building reliable systems at scale.
From language design debates to database internals and CI/CD practices, these stories reflect what working engineers care about. Birbla keeps a running archive so you can revisit discussions that aged well.
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RSS feed for ProgrammingOpen VSX extensions found harvesting developer info
bleepingcomputer.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Hardware-software co-design for MoE models to bypass NCCL bottlenecks
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM
blog.fogus.me · 10 points · 1 comments
AI made software easier to build. And so much harder to use
frigade.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Single Reference to 3100 APIs
github.com · 4 points · 2 comments
Maybe software stops being the default
sgnt.ai · 5 points · 6 comments
FastStrapy – A create-next-app-inspired CLI for FastAPI
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Flyte 2 is GA: durable distributed AI workflows using regular Python
union.ai · 17 points · 2 comments
Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI
blog.cloudflare.com · 25 points · 3 comments
Adapt, Automatically Turns Files into REST APIs, Web UI, and MCP
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
The Practice of Programming
cs.princeton.edu · 13 points · 0 comments
Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing
3 points · 1 comments
Benchmarking Fable, Sol, and Kimi K3 on SlopCodeBench
github.com · 7 points · 1 comments
It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism
observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com · 98 points · 94 comments
Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone
learning-rust.github.io · 5 points · 11 comments
Scilab: Open-source software for numerical computation
scilab.org · 5 points · 0 comments
An Honest Review of AI Programming
mropert.github.io · 53 points · 81 comments
Harness engineering for self-improvement
lilianweng.github.io · 311 points · 80 comments
Capital One closed Trump Organization accounts after anti-money laundering probe
reuters.com · 22 points · 0 comments
Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla)
brill.com · 28 points · 14 comments
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
404media.co · 8 points · 0 comments
Faster floating point math with Rust's new API
pythonspeed.com · 5 points · 0 comments
AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
fortune.com · 123 points · 177 comments
When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019)
software.rajivprab.com · 31 points · 36 comments
KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer
github.com · 60 points · 14 comments
The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare
blog.cloudflare.com · 54 points · 9 comments
Trawl – a self-hosted engine for scraping sites behind challenge walls
trawl.germondai.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Python Projects in the Browser – Event ticket preview
codembark.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer
13 points · 4 comments
What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
epoch.ai · 38 points · 106 comments